The operator of a new highly-automated container terminal in Melbourne has this afternoon won a seven-day interim injunction to stop an apparently "extremely effective" picket that has stopped trucks entering and leaving the Webb Dock site since early this week.
A tribunal has found Victoria's justice department indirectly discriminated against a prison worker who failed to declare his diabetes on engagement when its requirement to work unreasonable hours to meet a greater workload made his condition unstable.
The High Court will next Friday hear special leave applications from WorkSafe Victoria and a CFMEU official who are challenging a full Federal Court finding that he needed a federal entry permit to assist a health and safety representative when invited onto a construction site.
A court has awarded a professional employee almost $425,000 in damages for the repudiation of his employment contract by accountancy firm Crowe Horwath.
A court has stopped an IT specialist from working for a competitor and encouraging other employees to join him, finding a four-year restraint period reasonable after taking into account that he sold his stake in the company for a "substantial" sum and continued on as a "key employee".
A community-spirited junior football coach who runs positive behaviour workshops for teenagers has had his Working With Children approval restored after a tribunal found an indecent assault conviction involving a women half his age did not mean he posed a threat to children.
The prosecution has reworked its case against former HSU leader Kathy Jackson, who now faces 164 charges that mostly relate to alleged theft and fraud from her time as a union official.
As the Crown continues its pursuit of a Victorian employer charged with discriminating against employees who raised safety issues, Victoria's Court of Appeal has found that, as a question of law, it must prove only that the concerns were expressed rather than address the workers' "state of mind" at the time.
The FWC has today acceded to the Victorian Government's application to terminate next week's protected industrial action at the AGL Loy Yang power station and coal mine in the Latrobe Valley.
